Predator Comics: Yautja Stories And Crossovers

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This category collects Predator comic articles, including story overviews, Marvel crossover entries, Dark Horse-era background, and lore profiles tied to the comics. Predator comics have expanded the Yautja far beyond the films, introducing royal clans, unusual hunters, alien worlds, historical hunts, and battles against heroes such as Wolverine, Spider-Man, and Black Panther, culminating in Predator Kills the Marvel Universe. For a ranked buying and reading guide, start with the best Predator comics list.

Simone Di Meo's cover for Predator: Black, White & Blood #1, a Predator reaching out of a red city with a skull in its claw

Predator: Black, White & Blood: Marvel Anthology Plot

Predator: Black, White & Blood is a four-issue Marvel anthology from 2025 drawn in black, white and red. Joe Kelly and Álvaro López's serial Bloodwood followed Millie and the chained Yautja Lucky Boy on an 1850s goldfield, alongside eight shorts set from Caledonia to a deep space colony.

By Janno Vares October 15, 2026   Predator Comics

Predator: The Last Hunt Marvel comic cover art

Predator: The Last Hunt: Theta & The Stasis Farm Trap

Predator: The Last Hunt is Marvel's 2024 series by Ed Brisson and Francesco Manna. In 2068, Theta Berwick and Paolo Silva find a wrecked Predator supply ship, meet John Schaefer and his fellow survivors, and follow a beacon to Glenelg, where a Super Predator waits.

By Janno Vares October 16, 2026   Predator Comics

Predator: Day of the Hunter Marvel comic cover art

Predator: Day Of The Hunter: Theta Berwick's Revenge

Predator: Day of the Hunter is Marvel's 2022-2023 series by Ed Brisson and Kev Walker. In 2056, Theta Berwick crashes on the ice planet Tusket while hunting the three-mandibled Predator that killed her parents aboard the Astar ship Sandpiper in 2041.

By Janno Vares August 06, 2026   Predator Comics

A Predator's masked head and shoulder cannon rise from green water against a red sky in Brian Thies's cover art for Predator: Hunters III #2

Predator: Hunters III: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Hunters III is Dark Horse's 2020 series by Chris Warner and Brian Thies. Jaya Soames, Enoch Nakai, Mandy Graves and Raphael Herrera join John Schaefer in Belize, racing Colonel Ligachev's Russians to two Predators hiding in flooded caverns beneath a Mayan pyramid.

By Janno Vares October 17, 2026   Predator Comics

Robert Hack's cover for Archie vs. Predator II #1, a snarling Predator and its hunters looming over Veronica with a rifle, Archie, and Betty with a baseball bat

Archie vs. Predator II: Plot, Characters & Lore

Archie vs. Predator II is a 2019-2020 five-issue crossover from Dark Horse and Archie Comics by Alex de Campi and Robert Hack. The survivors of the first comic, Betty, Veronica, and the Predator rebuilt as Archie, crossed into a brighter Riverdale just before Dilton's Predator helmet called down a Predator invasion on its Halloween dance.

By Janno Vares October 12, 2026   Predator Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers

A Predator with glowing blue eyes grips a spear among autumn trees in Agustin Padilla's art for Predator: Hunters II #2

Predator: Hunters II: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Hunters II is Dark Horse's 2018 series by Chris Warner and Agustin Padilla. Jaya Soames, Enoch Nakai, Mandy Graves and Tyler Swain travel to eastern Afghanistan, where a village boy named Atal leads them to the lair of a Predator ahead of the Stargazer black ops team.

By Janno Vares October 17, 2026   Predator Comics

Predator: Hunters Dark Horse comic variant cover art

Predator: Hunters: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Hunters is Dark Horse's 2017 series by Chris Warner and Francisco Ruiz Velasco. Jaya Soames recruits Enoch Nakai, Mandy Graves and other survivors of Predator attacks and takes them to the Bunting Islands, where colonists hold the Exiles on Kehua.

By Janno Vares October 17, 2026   Predator Comics

A Predator in blood-streaked armor holds up a spiked trophy head before a pillar of skulls in Raymond Swanland's cover art for Predator: Prey to the Heavens

Predator: Prey To The Heavens: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Prey to the Heavens is Dark Horse's 2009 to 2010 series by John Arcudi and Javier Saltares. In a war-torn East African city, Thorpe, Major Briggs and the GDS contractors are hunted by black-armored Killer Predators while a lone grey Predator fights the armored clan.

By Janno Vares October 17, 2026   Predator Comics

Graham Nolan and Randy Elliott's cover for JLA vs. Predator, three Predators in the costumes of Superman, Green Lantern, and Batman

JLA vs. Predator

JLA vs. Predator is a 2001 DC Comics one-shot by John Ostrander and Graham Nolan. Three Dominators fled to the Justice League's Watchtower, and cloned Predators built to match each hero hunted them and the League through Venice, the Amazon, and England's Lake District.

By Janno Vares October 08, 2026   Predator Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers

Mel Rubi's cover for Predator: Xenogenesis #4, with an unmasked Predator lunging at Subotai and his sword

Predator: Xenogenesis: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Xenogenesis is an August-November 1999 Dark Horse four-issue series by Ian Edginton, Mel Rubi and Andrew Pepoy. In a flooded near-future Earth, Spearhead's Blades fight Predators who bait them into war games, while immortal samurai Subotai and Admiral John Dancer split over how far the hunt should go.

By Janno Vares October 25, 2026   Predator Comics

Joel Naprstek's painted cover for Predator: Homeworld #1, with an unmasked Predator holding a serrated polearm against firelight

Predator: Homeworld: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Homeworld is a March-June 1999 Dark Horse four-issue series by Jim Vance, Kate Worley and Toby Cypress. In Yellowstone, naturalist Maya Bergstrom and photographer George Sperling cross an elder Predator sent to stop three Bad Blood thrill-killers, and Maya argues the hunters may once have come from Earth.

By Janno Vares October 25, 2026   Predator Comics

Dean Ormston's painted cover for Predator: Hell Come a Walkin', with a Predator standing over a fallen Confederate soldier on a Civil War battlefield

Predator: Hell Come a Walkin': Comic Overview

Predator: Hell Come a Walkin' is a February-March 1998 Dark Horse two-issue miniseries by Nancy A. Collins and Dean Ormston. In September 1863, Confederate bushwhacker Jesse James and Union soldiers lay aside the Civil War long enough to kill a Predator hunting both sides in the Ozarks.

By Janno Vares October 25, 2026   Predator Comics

Dean Williams's painted cover for Predator: Captive, with an unmasked Predator facing the reader below the title logo

Predator: Captive: Comic Overview

Predator: Captive is a May 1998 Dark Horse one-shot by Gordon Rennie and Dean Ormston. In a Nevada bio-dome, Tyler Stern staged a live Predator hunt for Colonel Falkner, and the specimen turned Stern Industries into prey before a desert self-destruct erased the site.

By Janno Vares October 25, 2026   Predator Comics

Dan Norton's cover for Predator: Demon's Gold, with a Predator holding a Nazi flag over skulls and barbed wire

Predator: Demon's Gold: Comic Overview

Predator: Demon's Gold is an eight-page 1998 Dark Horse Presents story by Ron Marz and Claudio Castellini. In the Llanganati Mountains, Nazi soldiers forced a boy to guide them to Inca gold called the Sweat of the Sun, and a Predator killed the unit and spared him.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

Tom Taggart's cover art for Predator: Nemesis #1, with a sculpted Predator bust in a Victorian circular mount

Predator: Nemesis: Comic Overview

Predator: Nemesis is a 1997-1998 two-issue Dark Horse series by Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil. In Victorian London, Captain Edward Soames tracked a Predator the papers called Spring-Heeled Jack from East End killings and an India Rakshasa flashback to a ship buried under the Underground.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

Val Mayerik's cover for Dark Horse Presents #124, the anthology that opened with Predator: Bump in the Night

Predator: Bump In The Night: Comic Overview

Predator: Bump in the Night is an eight-page 1997 Dark Horse Presents story by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau. In a Florida backyard near the swamp, Bobby Collins and his friends snuck out to prove an alien ship was real, watched a Predator nail herons, and went to sleep while the hunter stood outside their tent.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

Bob Eggleton's cover for Predator: Primal #1, with a masked Predator facing a grizzly bear claw against a fiery wilderness background

Predator: Primal: Comic Overview

Predator: Primal is a 1997 two-issue Dark Horse series by Kevin J. Anderson and Scott Kolins. In the Alaskan wilderness, Forest Ranger Anna tracked a tagged grizzly into a hunt between a Predator and a mother bear, and a forest fire closed on all three.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

Mark Schultz's cover for Predator: Hell & Hot Water #1, with an unmasked Predator grappling a scuba diver underwater among sharks and a stingray

Predator: Hell And Hot Water: Comic Overview

Predator: Hell & Hot Water is a 1997 three-issue Dark Horse series by Mark Schultz and Gene Colan. Off southern Chile, Captain Rafe Cromartie led a dive team after a Predator that fell into the Humboldt Current, and the hunter used them as bait for a tentacled worm in a volcanic sea-floor ecosystem.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

A snarling Predator holding its wrist blades across its chest against a blue background, art for Predator: No Beast So Fierce

Predator: No Beast So Fierce: Comic Overview

Predator: No Beast So Fierce is a 1997 Dark Horse Presents short story by Mike W. Barr and Scott Kolins. In a jungle, Mrs. Trask led a party of hired hunters after the lion that killed her husband, while a Predator followed them and claimed the lion as its own prey.

By Janno Vares October 23, 2026   Predator Comics

Brian Bolland's cover for Predator vs. Judge Dredd #1, a Predator wearing Judge Dredd's uniform and badge with the words I am the law

Predator vs. Judge Dredd

Predator vs. Judge Dredd is a 1997 Dark Horse miniseries by John Wagner and Enrique Alcatena. A lone Predator hunted the Judges of Mega-City One, and Judge Dredd tracked it with the psychic Schaefer, a descendant of Dutch Schaefer, into the ruins of old New York.

By Janno Vares October 08, 2026   Predator Comics | Alien And Predator Crossovers

Igor Kordey's painting of a snarling Predator holding a human skull, from Predator: Kindred #1

Predator: Kindred: Comic Overview

Predator: Kindred is a 1996 Dark Horse series by Jason R. Lamb and Scott Tolson. In Fleener Creek, Oregon, Buddy Wilcox, who saw a Predator kill his father in 1958, faced the same hunter decades later with Sheriff Kelly Mathis and the escaped killer Jimmy McCutcheon.

By Janno Vares October 23, 2026   Predator Comics

Paul Lee's painting of a Predator's head rising from dark swamp water among cypress trees, from Predator: Strange Roux

Predator: Strange Roux: Comic Overview

Predator: Strange Roux is a 1996 Dark Horse one-shot by Brian McDonald, Mitch Byrd and Jasen Rodriguez. In Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, in 1931, three muskrat trappers tracked a Predator that skinned its victims, and an old Cajun who took it for a local legend lured it into quicksand.

By Janno Vares October 23, 2026   Predator Comics

Igor Kordey's art of the gold-masked Predator raising its sword against a pirate captain in Predator: 1718

Predator: 1718: Comic Overview

Predator: 1718 is a nine-page Dark Horse story by Henry Gilroy and Igor Kordey from A Decade of Dark Horse #1 (July 1996). On the Guinea coast in 1718, a pirate captain who refused to keep stolen church gold fought his mutinous crew beside a gold-masked Predator, then handed the hunter his flintlock pistol.

By Janno Vares October 23, 2026   Predator Comics

Miran Kim's painted cover for Predator: Dark River #2, with the masked Predator reaching out of the shadows

Predator: Dark River Comic: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Dark River is Dark Horse's four-issue 1996 series by Mark Verheiden and Ron Randall. Lured by a lie about his brother Dutch, Detective Schaefer broke a pilot out of jail and returned to South America, where the Predator he had impaled had gone mad and become a god to a jungle tribe.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics

Jim Somerville's art of two moviegoers in 3-D glasses at a drive-in, from Predator: Invaders from the Fourth Dimension

Predator: Invaders from the Fourth Dimension: Comic Overview

Predator: Invaders from the Fourth Dimension is a 1994 Dark Horse one-shot by Jerry Prosser and Jim Somerville. In 1959 Hollywood, a boy wearing his father's 4-D movie glasses became the only one who could see a cloaked Predator, and the hunt followed him to a B-movie studio and a drive-in premiere.

By Janno Vares October 23, 2026   Predator Comics

Brom's painting of a Predator holding a feathered skull before a Navajo sand painting, from Predator: Blood on Two-Witch Mesa

Predator: Blood on Two-Witch Mesa: Plot & Characters

Predator: Blood on Two-Witch Mesa is a 1994 Dark Horse comic by Terry LaBan and Howard Cobb. Haunted after Big Game, Enoch Nakai heard how his great-grandfather saw a Predator slaughter oilmen drilling on a sacred Navajo mesa, and a government agent came calling.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

Dave Dorman's painted cover of Predator: Race War #1, with a Predator looming over prison inmates

Predator: Race War: Comic Overview

Predator: Race War is a 1993 Dark Horse series by Andrew Vachss and Randy Stradley. At Paloverde State Penitentiary in Arizona, black and white prison gangs united against a Predator that followed killer Mark Anthony Towers inside, while mercenary Cross went undercover.

By Janno Vares October 24, 2026   Predator Comics

Val Mayerik and Perry McNamee's cover art of the Predator wrestling a lion on the savanna, from Predator: Jungle Tales #1

Predator: The Pride at Nghasa: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: The Pride at Nghasa is a 1993 Dark Horse comic by Chuck Dixon and Enrique Alcatena. In 1936 Africa, a game ranger escorted a railway hunter after workers were killed near the Nghasa basin, and found the killer was a Predator the locals called the forest devil.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

George Pratt's painting of a kneeling Predator raising a skull and spine, from Predator: The Hunted City

Predator: The Hunted City: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: The Hunted City is a 1993 Dark Horse comic by Charles Moore and D. Alexander Gregory. In 1947 Manhattan, a freelance news photographer chased a wave of mobster murders and found that a Predator was hunting crime boss Tony Vincenzo and rival gangs.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

Derek Thompson's painted cover for Predator: Bad Blood #1, with a snarling red and blue Predator spreading its mandibles amid a spray of green blood

Predator: Bad Blood Comic: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Bad Blood is Dark Horse's four-issue 1993 series by Evan Dorkin and Derek Thompson. A rogue hunter that ate its own kind crashed in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, and framed ex-CIA man John Pulnick led his old team against it as a second Predator joined the hunt.

By Janno Vares October 19, 2026   Predator Comics

Leo Durañona's cover for Dark Horse Comics #4, with a samurai on a tiled rooftop facing a cloaked Predator

Predator: Blood Feud: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Blood Feud is a four-part Dark Horse comic by Neal Barrett Jr. and Leo Durañona from 1992 and 1993. A blind sensei in Tokyo named Juta was hunted by a Predator avenging its brother, a demon he had slain in a past life in the age of the shogun.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

Dave Dorman's painting of a snarling, unmasked Predator in front of a wall of fire, from the cover of Dark Horse Comics #1

Predator: Rite of Passage: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Rite of Passage is a wordless 1992 Dark Horse comic by Ian Edginton and Rick Leonardi. A young warrior returned from killing a lioness to find his village burned and its people skinned, then tracked the Predator responsible and fought it to the death.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

Dan Barry's cover for Predator: Bloody Sands of Time #1, with a masked Predator rising over French and German soldiers in the trenches

Predator: Bloody Sands of Time: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Bloody Sands of Time is a 1992 two-issue Dark Horse comic by Dan Barry. A lawyer defending a CIA operative found a French soldier's diary from 1916, which told of a Predator hunting the trenches of Verdun and the Somme in the First World War.

By Janno Vares October 22, 2026   Predator Comics

Brian Stelfreeze's painted cover for Predator: Cold War #1, with a Predator's masked face and wrist blades against the snowy Siberian mountains

Predator: Cold War Comic: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Cold War is Dark Horse's four-issue 1991 series by Mark Verheiden and Ron Randall. The army forced Detective Schaefer onto a secret team sent into Siberia after a party of hunters wiped out the Assyma oil field, where he joined Lieutenant Ligachev to destroy their ship before either superpower could seize it.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics

Chris Warner's cover for Predator: Big Game #1, with the Predator crouching in a cave mouth above a pile of skulls

Predator: Big Game Comic: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Big Game is Dark Horse's four-issue 1991 series by John Arcudi and Evan Dorkin. Corporal Enoch Nakai survived the destruction of Cole Army Base when a Predator detonated its captured ship, then tracked the hunter across Cibola County to the lava fields of El Malpais and took its head.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics

Photo cover of Dark Horse's Predator 2 #1, with the Predator reaching out a clawed hand in a dim, blue-lit warehouse

Predator 2 Comic: Plot, Characters & Differences

Predator 2 is Dark Horse's two-issue 1991 adaptation of the film by Franz Henkel, Dan Barry and Mark Bright. Narrated by Mike Harrigan, it followed the LAPD lieutenant through a 1997 Los Angeles heat wave as a Predator killed his detectives, broke a federal trap and left him an antique pistol.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics | Predator 2 Lore

Dave Dorman and Lurene Haines' painted cover for Dark Horse Presents #46, with a blood-spattered Predator holding a spear and wrist blades

Predator: God's Truth: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: God's Truth is an eight-page black and white comic by John Arcudi and Rob Walton from Dark Horse Presents #46 in 1990. Three guards hunted an escaped convict through the Everglades in 1926, and a Predator hunted them, sparing only the man who lived to tell the tale.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics

A Predator raises its wrist blade and a skull-topped spear as crows circle against a red sky in Chris Warner's cover art for Predator: Concrete Jungle

Predator: Concrete Jungle Comic: Plot, Characters & Lore

Predator: Concrete Jungle is Dark Horse's 1989 to 1990 comic by Mark Verheiden, Chris Warner and Ron Randall. Dutch's brother, Detective Schaefer, and his partner Rasche faced Predators in a New York heat wave, a Colombian jungle and a Midtown battle against a cloaked fleet.

By Janno Vares October 18, 2026   Predator Comics

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